Dr Rita McGrath - Author of "Seeing Around Corners"
Episode 63 of the Exponential Organisations podcast - Dr Rita McGrath - Author of "Seeing Around Corners"
Rita is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has had a lasting impact on the strategy and growth programs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
Rita is the founder of Valize a company focused on helping organizations go beyond innovation theater by developing tools to implement the Discovery Driven Growth approach.
Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her new book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen.
"Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen" can be found on Amazon here.
Columbia Business School has a course "Executive Access: Seeing Around Corners" that is taught be Rita and takes place on August 26. You can find out more at this link.
Rita also hosts Friday Fireside Chats that take place every Friday and feature fantastic guests. A full schedule is available here. She is also a prolific writer and her articles and blogs can be found on here website www.ritamcgrath.com.
The host of the podcast is Lance Peppler. Email him at lance@ideastorm.co.za or visit www.ideastorm.co.za.
The Exponential Organisations podcast has its own website which also contains extra material - https://exponentialorganisationspodcast.substack.com.
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